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Mirror strips provide a more manageable and customizable alternative to large wall mirrors, allowing you to arrange them in decorative patterns and shapes on walls and furniture. Create designs such as a city skyline, faux starburst mirror or a video-game inspired graphic made from mirror strips. Flexible plastic-based versions ensure safety when creating decor for a child's room.

Inspired by Music

Give a music-enthusiast's bedroom wall the look of a graphic equalizer using mirror strips of different heights, secured vertically to the wall. Add a few musical-note mirrors or painted musical notes near the display to make the interpretation more obvious. For another look, use six mirror strips, each 1/2- to 1-inch thick, as faux strings on a painted oversized guitar, or four for a bass silhouette on the wall. Paint the entire instrument or just its neck on the wall, making the neck wide enough to fit all the mirror "strings." Use hot glue to secure lightweight flexible mirror strips or a mirror adhesive for heavier glass strips.

City Skyline

Mirror strips of different widths and heights team up to create a skyline coming up from the floor or a baseboard along a wall, or along the side of a desk or wide piece of furniture. Use a triangular mirror atop some of the buildings for added effect. Paint the wall to look like a sunset behind the mirrors for an enhanced visual display. For another look, apply the mirror skyline on one wall with an exact duplicate in painted silhouette form on the opposite wall.

Reflecting on Video Game History

Mirror strips are similar in shape to objects in some video games from decades gone-by. Create a game-inspired wall by placing large strips vertically near both ends of a wall, each at a different height, with a square or round mirror somewhere near the center for a Pong-inspired wall. A series of mirror strips all the same width but different lengths, stacked horizontally near the ceiling, becomes the play field for a game of Breakout. Add a strip near the bottom as the game's paddle, along with a square or round mirror partway up the wall as a ball.

Starbursts and Flowers

Create your own take on the starburst or sunburst mirrors from another era by placing a large round mirror high up on a wall with mirror strip rays emanating from it. Alternate strips of two lengths for a sun-ray effect. Plastic mirror strips surrounding a round plastic mirror or a painted swirl 1/3 of the way up a wall become a flower for a child's bedroom. Add a stem with paint or with another narrow plastic mirror strip.

About the Author

Kathy Adams is an award-winning journalist and freelance writer who traveled the world handling numerous duties for music artists. She writes travel and budgeting tips and destination guides for USA Today, Travelocity and ForRent, among others. She enjoys exploring foreign locales and hiking off the beaten path stateside, snapping pics of wildlife and nature instead of selfies.